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DM Good morning Claude. How might theTeilhard de Chardin's construct of a "Noosphere" relate, correlate, or have relevance to our recent conversations, and the many factors thereof (such as: Pantakinesis™, the Universal Holophren™ and the fractals thereof, Non-local consciousness discoveries and their potential relationships to post-death consciousness, Fitness=Truth™ and definition of truths as being personal, etc.). Good morning! What a rich synthesis question! Having revie

DM So, it seems by combining our last conversation (re: "non-local consciousness," and the role GABA plays in consciousness "restraint" during life), ..and the content of our other related past conversations, ... we may have arrived at plausible, even logical, hypothesis: That is, the end of life (aka: physical death) may be but a Vanishing Point "Portal" for consciousness to enter a new dimension(s?) of Pantakinesis™ . I do realize we've little or no solid empirical or evid

Apollo Quiboloy — according to his followers — is the appointed son of God. He’s also at the center of a criminal empire, an explosive rift in the government of the Philippines, and a shift in the makeup of global Christianity. Excerpt: " His defiance echoed a familiar script in the modern Charismatic Christian playbook: a populist, right-wing persecution complex, where powerful religious leaders take on Jesus’ oppression as their own. Casting themselves as victims of a hosti

From Jane Austen to Rosa Parks, from Joan Didion to Stacey Abrams, saying no has been the key to female self-respect and political empowerment. Excerpt: ' “If you could go back to your younger self—say, six years after you’d graduated from high school—what would you ask?” I thought about it for a second and then said, “I’m not so sure I’d ask my younger self anything, but here’s what I’d tell her: that she needs to remember to listen more carefully to the voice inside her hea

Going along with an untruth for fear of disagreeing with others is a form of self-betrayal that will make you miserable. Excerpt: "What had kept the U.S.S.R. population in chains for so long was what the author and scientist Todd Rose has termed a “collective illusion,” precisely this phenomenon of people holding an opinion that is widely shared but that they believe is theirs alone—thus staying silent from fear of persecution or rejection."

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